Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Partner

Industry, university, national or foreign laboratories, small businesses, or other partners interested in collaborating with SLAC. The strategic partner is responsible for working with their technical contact at SLAC to develop a resource-loaded statement of work (SOW) with milestones and deliverables.

Principal Investigator (PI)

The SLAC PI is responsible for working with the strategic partner on the technical and project details of the collaboration. The SLAC PI is also repsonsible for working with their Directorate Business Office to develop a full cost-reimbursible budget, as well as managing the schedule, scope, and budget of the project.

Research Partnerships and Technology Commercialization (RP&TC)

RP&TC is responsible for providing terms and conditions for the contract which will govern the project partnership, has sole authority to enter into the contract, and can also initiate licensing arrangements for SLAC technologies. RP&TC represents SLAC in processing contracts for the Department of Energy Site Office (DOE SSO).

Directorate Business Office

The Directorate Business Office is the primary interface between the PI, the strategic partner, SLAC financial offices, and RP&TC in order to process contracts. The business office will assist in developing budget estimates, as well as tracking and reporting on the financial execution of the project.

SLAC + Stanford

Stanford University operates SLAC for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. We run four joint research centers with Stanford that focus on cosmology and astrophysics, materials and energy science, catalysis, and ultrafast science.